The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-25
OUR STATE CONTEMPORARY

Many records and papers relating
to the colonial history of North Caro-
lima are preserved in the British For
eign office, we believe. Since 1929
frequent efforts have been made in
different Legislatures to set ON foot
such machinery as should result in
securing copies of these records. In
the Legislature of 1881 bill was
passed empowering the trustees of the
State Library to secure copies of them.
The trustees turned the work over to
Col. Saunders. He employed COM
petent man in London to procure for
him copies of every paper there relat-
ing to North Carolina from the begin
ming up to 1852. Having secured
the material, the heavy work devolv-
ed on him of compiling, classifying
and arranging in chronological order
and fitting together according to logI-
cal relation and connection this chao-
tic mass of letters, reports, dusty ord
ers of council, &c. For seven years
. this great scholar and antiquary delv-
ed among these papers and has at
last brought order out of chaos. The
result is four great volumes of an in
tensely interesting documentary his
tory of the colony of North Carolina
from 1929 to 1852. And for this
work of seven years, the length of a
Patriarchal term of service for wife,
Col. Saunders neither received nor de-
manded single cent of compensation
from the State which he loves with a
devotion unequalled by the affection
of Jacob for the daughter of Laban.
He should receive and we believe will
receive the unstinted gratitude of ev-
cry son of North Carolina. Lenoir
Topic.
The revenues of our Government
are now about one hundred millions of
dollars year in excess Of expenses.
This can not go ON longer, and it is
proposed 20 remove the tax from all
liquors that make men drunk to have
free whiskey and tobacco, it will re
main as high as it is now ON all neces-
saries of life upon trace chains, iron,
steel, harness, blankets, shoes, hats,
flannel, wooden goods, etc. Is there a
sensible man in the United States that
desires this state of affairs Suppose
we remove all tax on the distillation
of whiskey and its sale, what state
of affairs would we have in this coun-
try, in the South, in this State, in this
county. Whiskey could be bought
for fifty cents gallon, and every ir-
responsible fellow in the community, if
he chose could have grog shop at his
door, and many who are too lazy to
work honestly for living would
choose Washington Gasette.
If persons would only contrast the
difference between the Northern pa
per and the local paper, as they do in
price and general appearance, more
support would be given the paper in
their own county, and there would be
no necessity for repetition of the
points of differences. The New York
paper which costs so little and is so
full of trials of aldermanic boodlers,
and blood-curdling crime, will, during
the twelve months you take it, seldom
if ever mention the name of single
individual with whom you are ac-
quainted. 1t will never call attent-
ion to the town or county in which
you reside; its products. its manufact-
uring facilities, its advantages for new
corners, or its special adoption to
trade or commerce. The local paper
does all this and more too. 1t ment-
ions every product in detail and chal-
lenges comparison.- Kernersville
NeaUs aud Farm.